"Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself."

Yourcenar, Marguerite on Infatuation
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"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life."

O'Neill, Eugene on Loneliness
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"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."

Newton, Joseph Fort on Loneliness
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"It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask."

Mansfield, Katherine on Loneliness
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"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."

Maeterlinck, Maurice on Loneliness
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"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome."

Levant, Oscar on Loneliness
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"In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely."

Fisher, Geoffrey F. on Loneliness
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

Dyer, Wayne on Loneliness
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on Loneliness
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"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."

Carlyle, Thomas on Loneliness
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"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

Bruyere, Jean De La on Loneliness
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"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on Loneliness
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"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."

Scott, Sir Walter on Loneliness
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"It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

Thackeray, William M. on Infatuation
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"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."

Pavese, Cesare on Infatuation
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"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on Infatuation
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"Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."

Donne, John on Infatuation
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"To be no part of any body, is to be nothing."

Donne, John on Rejection
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"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness."

Wolfe, Thomas on Loneliness
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"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."

Wallace, Lew on Loneliness
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on Loneliness
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"Of my friends I am the only one left."

Terence on Loneliness
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"What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?"

Updike, John on Sex
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"Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love."

Peguy, Charles on Love
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"Punishing the prostitute promotes the rape of all women. When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are bad, and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men."

James, Margo St. on Prostitution
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"The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely."

Cooley, Charles Horton on Sex
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Love
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"I feel all these jitters when I wake up in the morning. Just energy jitters. When I'm having sex, I don't have that."

Milano, Alyssa on Sex
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"Sex is the last refuge of the miserable."

Crisp, Quentin on Sex
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"That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Love
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"Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away."

Proverb, French on Time and Time Management
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"She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage."

Delano, Anthony on Equality
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"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."

Connolly, Cyril on Men and Women
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"Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex."

Rubin, Jerry on Men
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"In the battle of the sexes, woman gains her greatest victory by surrendering."

Unknown, Source on Feminism
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"A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing."

Monroe, Marilyn on Fame
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"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."

Mailer, Norman on Sex
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"Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator."

Bagnold, Enid on Sex
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"Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict."

Welch, Raquel on Fame
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"Sex can no longer be the germ, the seed of fiction. Sex is an episode, most properly conveyed in an episodic manner, quickly, often ironically. It is a bursting forth of only one of the cells in the body of the omnipotent I, the one who hopes by concentration of tone and voice to utter the sound of reality."

Hardwick, Elizabeth on Sex
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